Name: Monkey puzzle seed soup (Sopa de piñones)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Chilean
Ingredients: salt and black pepper; 250 ml/8 fl oz/1 cup milk; 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander (cilantro); 15 ml/1 tbsp olive oil; 1 kg/2¼ lb monkey puzzle nuts with skins removed (see Cook’s tip), or 200 g/7 oz pine nuts or blanched almonds

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Cooking of Chile

By Boris Basso Benelli

Published 2014

About

Revered as sacred by the Mapuche people, the monkey puzzle tree provides seeds that have been an important part of the diet for centuries. Known as piñones, the seeds are highly nutritious and are eaten whole, or ground to make flour. The seeds are hard to find outside Chile, so pine nuts or blanched almonds can be substituted.